Hi Peter, Timo Sorry for this breaking change, I didn't notice that was a breaking change. I'm +1 to revert the FLINK-33523
Regards, aitozi Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> 于2023年12月7日周四 20:41写道: > Hi Peter, > > thanks for reaching out to the Flink community. This is indeed a serious > issue. As the author of the Flink type system, DataType and many related > utilities I strongly vote for reverting FLINK-33523: > > - It changes the Flink type system without a FLIP. > - It breaks backwards compatibility with UDFs and connectors. > > Regards, > Timo > > On 07.12.23 07:38, Péter Váry wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > We are working on upgrading the Iceberg-Flink connector from 1.17 to > 1.18, > > and found that some of our tests are failing. Prabhu Joseph created a > jira > > [1] to discuss this issue, along with short example code. > > > > In a nutshell: > > - Create a table with an 'ARRAY<INT NOT NULL>' column > > - Run a select which returns this column > > - The return type changes: > > - From 'Object[]' - in 1.17 > > - To 'int[]' - in 1.18 > > > > The change is introduced by this jira [2]. > > > > While I understand the reasoning behind this change, this will break some > > users existing workflow as evidenced by Xingcan Cui finding this > > independently [3]. > > > > What is the opinion of the community about this change? > > - Do we want to revert the change? > > - Do we ask the owners of the change to make this behavior configurable? > > - Do we accept this behavior change in a minor release? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33523 - DataType > > ARRAY<INT NOT NULL> fails to cast into Object[] > > [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-31835 - DataTypeHint > > don't support Row<i Array<int>> > > [3] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33547 - SQL primitive > > array type after upgrading to Flink 1.18.0 > > > >